My point is this, and apparently it was a misunderstanding on my end, but I was confused from the outset. The way I understood the coin toss was that it determined who started with the ball and the direction each team would go each quarter for the duration of the game. If a team deferred, that was basically the team saying we want to play with the wind at our back in the 2nd and 4th quarters. If a team took the ball, then they lost the right to have the wind in the 2nd and 4th quarters. Today, ISU got the ball first and had the wind at their back in the 2nd and 4th quarters, which I assumed was someone on the Iowa coaching staff not schooling the captains up on the process. I guess I didn't understand the process.